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As a singer, composer and harmonica genius, Little Walter was arguably the best blues artist produced by the post war Chicago blues movement. Walter arrived in Chicago from rural Louisiana at the end of WWII, and recorded his first record in 1947 at the age of 17. From the very start Walter paid homage to no tradition other than his own.
24 de ene. de 2024 · Little Walter (born Marion Walter Jacobs in Marksville, Louisiana; May 1, 1930; died on February 15, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American blues singer, harmonica player, and guitarist, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica earned him comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix for innovation and impact on succeeding generations.
Marion "Little Walter" Jacobs is widely considered the greatest blues harmonica player ever. A Creole who could speak French, he was born in Marksville, Louisiana in 1930. He took up the harmonica as a child, at first playing polkas and waltzes, and by the time he was 12 he was on his own, working the sidewalks and bars of New Orleans with his ...
11 de dic. de 2009 · Walter died on February 15, 1968 in Chicago at the age of 37 as a result of head injuries sustained in a street fight. From his very first to his very last record, Little Walter was unique among post war blues artists. From the outset he was a true original, a visionary musician whose natural mode of expression was the modern electrically ...
19 de sept. de 2023 · Little Walter’s Early Life and Career. Little Walter was born Marion Walter Jacobs on May 1, 1930, in Marksville, Louisiana. He grew up on a farm, where he learned to play the harmonica at an early age. He quit school and left home when he was 12, and started to travel around the South, playing on street corners and in clubs.
18 de feb. de 2022 · To share a memory or send a condolence gift, please visit the Official Obituary of Walter Thomas Little hosted by Bowers Funeral Service. On February 18, 2022, Walter Thomas Little, a long-time resident of Revelstoke, British Columbia, left all of us peacefully at the age of 73. Walter was a loving and devoted Father to his Daughter Rebecca ...
15 de dic. de 2021 · Hailing from Canton, Ohio, The O'Jays formed in 1958 and originally consisted of childhood friends Eddie Levert and Walter Williams Sr. Eventually, they added McKinley High School classmates William Powell, Bobby Massey, and Bill Isles (via Black Past).According to All Music, the boys were inspired to form a musical group after seeing Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers perform.
